What is Painting?: New Edition (Revised Edition)

Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it

“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted ideas.

Now in a completely revised second edition, What is Painting? is a fresh, focused look at painting. Bell addresses questions such as “does anything unite those objects we call paintings?” and “what facto...